House Republican launches bid to impeach Pete Hegseth | Hanomansing Live

Lawmakers in the United States are back on Capitol Hill after the midterms, and the Republicans are putting pressure on one of their own. A vote to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has been brought forward by Republican Congressman Thomas Massie. We're not indicting him for being bad at his job. In fact, he was very effective at killing school children in Iran. He was very effective at extrajudicial killings. There's no argument in these impeachment articles that he's ineffective. The argument here is that he's broken laws and he's violated the Constitution. We're not worried about that. We are very proud of the President's America First agenda, of our peace through strength posture. We know the world is a better and safer place as a result. And so if we want to litigate that, the success of those things, I'm happy to do it all day long. I couldn't be more proud. Hegseth's pride could be tested as early as Wednesday when the vote's expected to take place. If the House decides to impeach him, it would then go to the Senate for a potential trial. Well, usually when we bring in this guy, it's to talk about the world of finance, but today it's politics in Washington. Peter Armstrong, bring us up to speed on this vote to impeach Pete Hegseth. Yeah, I mean, you didn't even have to have all the results in last Tuesday night to know that this was one of the things that was going to happen. As inevitable as gravity, I think I said earlier. The move here, the one interesting part is that it's Massie. It's a Republican who's actually trying to begin the process of impeachment rather than the swath of newly elected or newly empowered Democrats in Washington. So Massey is coming in and saying there are eight articles of impeachment. And there's some interesting sort of nuance to this because he is a Republican and he's trying to get people on board. And his argument might actually work with some Republicans that he's saying, look, What we're really asking here are what are the rules? What is a president and a secretary of war allowed to do without congressional authority? Permission, basically, because they're supposed to go to Congress on this stuff. So as I say, eight articles of impeachment, three of them just straight up about Iran, one of them about not harming civilian casualties, one about those extra judicial killings, those speedboats that they say had drugs on them in the Caribbean and in the Pacific, one for suppressing free speech. This is about Senator Mark Kelly, who had told. We'll Soldiers in the United States that they didn't have to follow an illegal order. They tried to bring him up on military tribunal be for that and one for capturing Nicolas Maduro right out of Venezuela without congressional authority and one for illegally waging war in Yemen. The question wasn't. What this would look like, nor was it whether Pete Hegseth would be first. back. I think it was almost a guarantee. The question is always, how would the president respond? And here's how the president responded on 60 Minutes. Do you have confidence in him? I do. Look, we've won two wars. We've won Venezuela and taken out. Billions and billions and billions of dollars already, and we will be taking out many billions of dollars and get along very well, and you could call it a territory, you could call it whatever you want. We won that war in less than one hour. And you credit Pete Hegseth. And nobody was killed. You credit Pete Hegseth for that? No, but he was a part of it. So people, Peter, have been going through that 60 Minutes interview very, very closely, trying to see you know what it says about Trump's approach to being president after the midterms. What do you think? Look, I think this is just the beginning. There's going to be a ton of these. There's going to be a ton more impeachment processes. There's going to be a ton more just procedures and accusations and all of this. And Trump's going to have to decide who he's standing by. You heard right now he's standing by Pete Hegseth. That's not always a great harbinger. Often he says one thing and three days later, he says it completely different. But he has to decide where and when he gets bogged down protecting people and where and when he jettisons people to move on and try to protect his own legacy and his own agenda moving forward. And I think that's going to be the balance we're going to be watching for at the White House going forward. It's not just how he responds to this. It's how this piles up with everything else in the next couple of weeks. Washington reporter Peter Armstrong. Thank you. You bet.